Summertime Sew-a-Long

Friday, April 4, 2014

I have been looking at this UFO on and off for a while thinking I must get on with it. I have put quite a bit in storage while we rent and build and it seems one of the items is the black background felt I need for these blocks.
I have all my coloured felt and plenty of freezer paper so I can move forward a bit at least.
These are the pieces for the next block. They are reversed here because I have left the paper on the front. I lightly spray a sheet of paper with spray baste glue and stick the pieces down paper side down. I then spray the back with the spray baster. Sticking them down first stops them being blasted away by the spray. I then stick them onto the black background and peel off the freezer paper.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Spent an hour sewing all the bits on in matching machine embroidery thread. I bought two sets of the Q&A threads from Big W a while back and they have been fine for the free motion stitching that I do. They worked out much cheaper than keeping on buying the threads one at a time from my LQS.